Since I wrote the letter a few weeks ago, I’ve had a number of excellent discussions with people. One of which transformed into an invitation to give a talk on the topic later this month, which I have accepted. So, on the 28th, I shall be talking to the Canberra LUG (CLUG) on equality in Open Source.
Generally speaking though, I’ve been fairly enthused in advocating the topic. In fact, enthused to the point that over the past few weeks, I’ve written a paper on general equality in Open Source, on which I will be basing a few talks, such as the one I’ll be delivering to CLUG. I’ve also submitted similar talks to the Open Source Developers’ Conference and linux.conf.au, so I’m hoping at least one of those gets accepted.
The paper and talks basically boil down to the school of thought that is best described in the following:
“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it” — Thomas Henry Huxley (1868)
and which, when you think about it, is roughly the point of the F/LOSS movement to begin with.
Hey Good luck with that talk (and possible future talks)… Will you be otherwise publishing the paper any time soon?
Good luck from me, too! I like Huxley’s sentence… I think the same, though with simpler and a bit more optimistic words :-)
Beatiful sentence (but not more beatiful than the writer of this blog). Too bad I can’t be in Canberra for the talk.
The FLOSS Moral police rides again!
Dash: “The FLOSS Moral police rides again!”
a) what’s wrong of FLOSS being moral?
b) what’s wrong of people in general having moral?
c) what’s wrong of promoting a moral that about 75% of people consider “the right one”?
d) how does Melissas doings affect you? Has the quality of your life degraded noticeably because of her doings? And more importantly; If you’re quite happy with your life and the doings of both you and the people surrounding you and don’t see why Melissas doings are important, why do you seem so affended?
just a few thoughts…
Myrtti 75%? That’s about 4,5 billion, are you sure about that number?
One might see those doings as important, only in a bad way.
Tomas